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Retentions: has the construction industry had enough following the Carillion disaster?

Posted by Anthony Davis

|January 29, 2018

Retentions: has the construction industry had enough following the Carillion disaster?

Jonathan Hyndman, Partner at Rosling King looks at the common place use of cash retentions in the construction industry. Some £3 billion of retentions remain outstanding...

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